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Cannot Install Windows SDK :(
You try to install latest Windows SDK and it does not work. If you look at the setup log file...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 06/27/2012
Windows Diagnostics with Windows Azure Issue
Windows Azure Diagnostics does not work, you see following in the Compute Emulator =>...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 06/27/2012
Enabling Advanced Driver Tracing for the SQL Native Client ODBC Drivers
If you are using the SQL Native Client ODBC driver, there is built-in high performance very detailed...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 05/15/2012
PowerShell Command Separator Is ; and Not &
Ahh PowerShell, I still cannot fully embrace your powerful weirdness. With normal NT command...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 04/28/2012
Disabling => CLRDLL: No CLR image loaded (i.e. mscorwks.dll)
I’m debugging using the Debugging Tools For Windows (WinDbg). Debugging a native C++ process...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 04/26/2012
Calculating read_only_routing_url for AlwaysOn
When setting up read-only routing for SQL Server AlwaysOn, you have to configure each...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 04/25/2012
Tracking Handle Misuse Using Application Verifier and Windbg
In a recent MSDN forum post Connection Pooling randomly throwing COM exceptions I uncovered an issue...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 09/08/2009
Nice day
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Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 02/11/2009
How to tell if binary is x86 or amd64?
First get dumpbin tool, ships with any Windows SDK. Run dumpbin /headers on the binary, then look at...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 11/25/2008
TrustedInstaller
Just a note to self, when typing in TrustedInstaller into security dialogs in Vista/Windows 2008, be...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 10/07/2008
What is mscorwks_ntdef.dll?
Ok, file this one under debugger trivia. If you are debugging a 32-bit CLR process from a...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 10/06/2008
How To Read Data From AD LDS Into Java
Just helping out the next person, this code took me all day to cobble together. Key tricky part was...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 09/23/2008
SqlClient Timeouts Revealed
Just some notes from recent discussions internal and external of how timeouts work with...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 08/29/2008
Why Can't I Log Into SQL Server?
Even though I've been working on the SQL Server protocol layer for the past 3 years I still have...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 08/27/2008
Sharing IE Links With Live Mesh
In case you have not heard the buzz, we have this new thing called Live Mesh that is pretty...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 06/04/2008
Connection Pooling, ADO.NET, SPIDs
If you have pooling issues with ADO.NET (leaking connections, pool size exceeded, etc...) one way to...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 05/08/2008
Writing CLR Stored Procedures
I'm trying to write some CLR sprocs to test out the TDS behavior of CLR sprocs versus T-SQL sprocs...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 04/22/2008
Why does Windows Always Want To Hide Things From Me?
Over the years, I find more and more of the Windows UI is designed to hide things like where the...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 04/15/2008
High Performance Help In VS.NET 2008
Don't know about you, but some days I'm so busy I don't have time to wait while VS.NET spawns...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 03/28/2008
MacGruber Transactions
Found an interesting bit of code on the newsgroups the other day .... what I like to call MacGruber...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 03/26/2008
Easy Way To Debug SSL Issues With Web Services (Including SQL Server 2005 SOAP Endpoints)
Here is a nice easy way to debug SSL issue with Windows 2003 that I discovered while working on SOAP...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 03/13/2006
Debugging SQL Connectivity 101
Note to self: Things to remember to check next time I can't connect to SQL... 1. Is SQL started?...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 02/25/2006
Debugging Java Memory Leaks
Hello world, I am working late on the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver. Very fun job, but the...
Author: Matt Neerincx [MSFT] Date: 10/14/2005